442 NOTICES OF THE MEETINGS | May 8, 
Mr. Farapay exhibited a piece of the Submarine Electro-telegraph 
cable (from Mr. Crampton), consisting of four insulated copper wires 
surrounded by packing, and then by ten external iron wires or rods 
to give protection, weight, and strength. A kink or sharp short 
twist which occurred in the laying it down under the full force of 
the steam-tug had somewhat deranged the wires, but had broken 
nothing nor caused any interference with the insulation, and for two 
full years that part acted telegraphically in the sea as well as any 
other part of the cable. 
GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 
Monday, May 8. 
Wituram Wizserrorce Birp, Esa., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
John Laing, Esq. Joseph Skey, M.D. 
William Nicol, Esq. Matthew William Thompson, Esq., M.A. 
were duly elected Members of the Royal Institution. 
Matthew Noble, Esq. 
was admitted a Member of the Royal Institution. 
The following Professors were unanimously re-elected : — 
Wituram Tuomas Branoeg, Esq.. D.C.L., F.R.S. L. & E., as 
Honorary Professor of Chemistry in the Royal Institution. 
Joun Tynpauu, Esq., Ph.D., F.R.S., as Professor of Natural 
Philosophy in the Royal Institution. 
The following PresENTs were announced, and the thanks of the 
Members returned for the same ; — 
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